Show I 1 BT B T E L E GRAPH fen FEE UNION uhe mue A 31 E it I 1 C A IN YONKERS N Y 12 early this morning a tire was discovered in the four story brick building on dock st occupied by b reed and carnick manufacturing fracturing fac turing a chemists the mattlue manufacturing fac turing and new york Phar mical association the building was entirely d destroyed estro ed and other smaller buildings da damaged magd loss over insurance EAST LIVERPOOL ohio 12 annie annle van fossen the young woman accused of poisoning the van fossen and mcbane mebane families of this city waved preliminary hearing pleaded cleade not guilty and was remal remanded lad iad to jail on the charge of murder in me first degree no other deaths have occurred and the other victims are arc ail ad in a fair way to recover NEW YORK tork 12 gen grants physician said last jast night in ili response to in quirles in regard to the generals health Ile lle alth aith general grant consulted me earldin early in autumn about a p pain 1 I n in the side of his ton tongue ue which r rendered e d ered it painful for him to articulate and masticate his food the general smoked cigars largely and this seemed to irritate his tongue we restricted him to three cigars a day and lie he stopped smoking of ills his own accordia accor dIt is very remarkable that this change was not fol lowed beany by any disturbance of the nervous system or general irritation he improved in locally was able to out pain and his general appearance is improved in every respect ile he is now occupied several hours a day in literary work which he seems to enjoy I 1 think lie he is in ili better health than he lie has been since the accident a year 5 ear ago ile he Is still lame from the injury to nis his thigh which has left a great tenderness and he is unable to walk on account ot pain al u a and nd feebleness without the aid 0 of a crutch ru t cil ell or stick there is nothing that would justify the assertion that he is seriously III ill and he is not in a critical condition BOSTON 12 prof henry henra L eustes dean of harvard scientific school died at his bis residence in cambridge yesterday aged CO 60 years lie he has been ailing alling forthe for the past two years and a month ago his lungs were seriously affected and he was ordered to the south bud but returned on wednesday ina lna in a hopeless condition washington 12 nir mr crittenden member of the cherokee council testified before the senate committee on indian affairs to today day he was informed that money was paid to secure the passage of the indian lease bill indian AF eitt melon of the osage and kaw bribes tribes testified that those indians leased about acres of land to seven soven seven lesses losses for ten yeats ye arsat at a yearly rental of three to four cents per acre witness had han never been paid anything to secure the leases ile he advised the ind indans indians ans to lease the border lands of their reservation in order to protect themselves from the incursion of cattle cattie from kansas and the cherokee reservations 4 NEW yord YORK 12 the following letter was sent mrs ulysses S grant by mr W 11 vanderbilt C to fifth avenue jan 10 1885 mrs masses S grant DEAR madame so many misrepresentations have bave appeared in regard to the idan loan ioan made by me to general grant and reflecting 7 unjustly upon him a and ana nd myself that it seems proper to brielly briefly recite the facts on sunday the ath of may alay last general grant called at my house and asked me roe to lend him UJO udo for one day I 1 gave him iny my check without a question not because the transaction was businesslike business like but simply because the request came froni from general grant the thi shiell overwhelmed him in the fiedt 24 hour hourt aroused the t sympathy and re regret ret of the whole country you and h he c sent bent me within a few days time deeds of your 0 u r joint properties to cover this ob 1 li 1 g gatien gatlen atton atten and urged my acceptance on the ground that this was only a debt of honor which the general had personally incurred and these deeds I 1 returned during my absence in europe the general delivered to my attorney mortgages upon all his bis own real estate household household effects and swords medais medals and works of art which were memorials of his victories and presents from governments all over the world these securities were j at his solicitation the necessary steps were taken by judgment etc to reduce these properties to possession and the tile articles mentioned have been this day bought in by me and the amounts bid applied to the reduction of the debt now that I 1 am at liberty to treat these things as my own the disposition of the whole matter most in accord with my feelings is this I 1 present to you as your separate estate the debt and judgment 1 I hold against general grant also the mortgages upon his bis real estate and all household furniture and ornaments coupled only on with the condition that the swords commissions medals gifts from he e united states cities and foreign governments ov ern ments and ana all articles of histo historical cical val vai value u e and interest sha shall shail 11 at the generals death or if you desire it sooner he be presented to the government at washington washinton where they will remain as perpetual memorials of his fame and of the history of his time I 1 herewith assignments to you of the mortgages and judgments a bill of sale of personal property and deed of trust in which the articles of historical interest are enumerated A copy ot of this trust deed will with your approval be forwarded to the president resident I 1 ol 01 the united states for deposit in tho the proper department trusting this action will meet with your acceptance and approval and with the kindest re regards 11 a ads to your husband I 1 am yours respectfully signed AV 11 II vanderbilt new CITY jan 10 1883 1885 dear i sir mrs grant wishes me to answer your letter of this evening to say chaty that while she appreciates yar your great geni en crossty in transferring to her the gort mort gage given diven to secure my debt of she cannot accept it in whole she accepts with pleasure the trust which applies to the articles enumerated in your letter to go goto to the government of I 1 the united states at my death or sooner at her option in this matter you have anticipated the disposition which I 1 had contemplated making of the articles they will be delivered to the government as soon as arrangements can be made for their reception the papers relating to all other property will be returned with the request that you auh have av e it sold and the proceeds applied p til iii ed to ille the liquidation of the debt which h 1 I so justly owe you you have stated jn your letter with the minutest accuracy the history of the transaction which brought moe roe in your debt I 1 have only to add aag that I 1 regard your check for that amount an lount without inquiry as an act of marked and add unusual friendship the loan was to me personally so nally I 1 got the money as I 1 believed to carry the marine national bank overa day being 11 assured the tile bank was solvent unusual calls needed assistance until it could call in It its loans sloans I 1 was assured by ferdinand ward that tile the firm of grant ward had llad over to their credit at that time in the marine bank besides of cd securities in their own vaults I 1 cannot conclude without assuring you that thata Mrs AIrs grants inability to avail herself of your great kindness in no way wax lessens either her sense of the obligation or my own yours truly signed U S gnant GRANT W 11 II vanderbilt esq fifth avenue jan 11 ge gen n U S grant MY DEAR SIR sin on my return home last night I 1 found your letter in answer to mine to mrs grant I 1 appreciate fully the sentim sentiments 4 ants which actuate both mrs giant glant and yourself in delin ing that part of my proposition relating to the tue real estate I 1 greatly regret that i she feels it her duty t to 0 make this els decision as I 1 had earnestly hoped that the spirit in which the c affer mner was made would overcome any f couples in accepting it bud but I 1 must insist that I 1 shall not be defeated in the purpose to which I 1 have given so thought and which I 1 have so much at heart I 1 will therefore as fast as the money is received from the sales of real estate deposit it in the union trust coin coln company any with the money thus realized realized rea lizeT I 1 will at once create with that company comp any a trust with proper provisions for foran an income to be made for mrs grant during her life and giving her power to make such disposition of the principal as she may elect verv very ve truly vours yours signed WM wry L 11 vanderbilt vander BILT to general U S grant NEW YORK youk jan 11 imm dear str sin bour letter of this date received mrs grant and I 1 regret that you cannot accept our proposition to retain the pi property which was mortgaged in good faith to secure a debt of honor but your generous determination compels us to no longer resist yours trul truly 1 siu siz signed Si ned sned ay U S GRANT TO W 11 II vanderbilt new YORK sunday january 11 1 my dear ar ja vanderbilt tander Iander bilt balt ing your letter this afternoon general graut grant and myself felt that it would be ungracious 1 to refuse your princely and generous nerous offer hence his note to you but Ss ut upon reflection I 1 find that I 1 cannot I 1 will not accept your munificence ili in any form I 1 beg you will pardon this apparent bacilla vacillation tiou on and consider this answer definite and final with great regard and a sense of obligation that will always remain I 1 am yours very gratefully sll sil sla signed tied ried JULIA D GRANT to yr mr W 11 vanderbilt SA SAN FRANCISCO 12 during durins arzu areu ment on the question of alimony in the sharon divorce case today to dav day the affidavit of nellie bracket ane one of th the witnesses during the trial of the case was introduced she he stated that the my dear wife letters were fixed by the plaintiff ff after the suit snit against sharon was instituted the affidavit of ex senator sharon was S re read a I 1 it charged that the testimony n 0 of f expert gumpel who swore the 11 my dear wife letters were uen zen en ulue was given in accordance with a contract made with GW tyler plaintiffs attorney by which gumpel was to receive if plaintiff won the suit the contract was produced tyler testified that he wrote the contract tract tand and figued it in both his and gumpell Gum name ile he said the matter was a trap to find out but who was distributing aharons Sh arons money win I 1 H L barnes defendants attorney testified that I 1 W lees captain of the city detectives introduced to him john a clerk in tylers eylers office of whom barnes purchased the contract for in esne concluding luding his testimony barnes said 1 I believe belleve now that the paper is a fraud and withdraw it the case was continued till friday NEW ORLEANS 12 11 at 1215 15 13 15 great excitement cit ement was caused in camp street by the rapid firing of pistol shots the firing tiring took look place in the Mascott office 08 68 camp street up stairs between J I 1 bhouston houston state tax collector and george osmond editor of the mascott it is also stated that robert brewster state registrar of voters accompanied houston and took part in the shooting houston and osmond each received a pistol shot wound in the hand the trouble was caused by an article ili in saturdays mascott sfa SIa shott reflecting 7 severely upon rudee rudae wt S houston houst on brother of J D houston houston says he called at the SI mascott ascott office to punish osmond and that he used a stick and only pulled his weapon after osmond had drawn his lie he received a shot in his right hand dropped his pistol picked it up with sith his left hand band and fired but once osmond says 1 I was sitting at my desk in the office when two men came up one of them was J D houston and the other I 1 know by sight but no by ton asked me if my name was osmond I 1 answered yes ves and he struck me roe over tile the head with wilh a club and then pulled his pistol and began shooting I 1 was hit in the right hand there were over ten shots fired I 1 fired two and shot houston the man who was with houston kept shooting at zen nick who was throwing things at him I 1 have not the slightest idea mea as to what houston shot at or tackled me corll for 12 mrs belva ann lockwood candidate canda date of the equal rights party for president in the late campaign in her petition to the senate through senator hoar ho ar asks that th the votes for her in new york new hampshire indiana lowa iowa michigan illinois maryland and california be U counted and that the electoral vote of indiana be bt given to her she charges that votes cast dast for her were fraudulently fraud u en and an illegally eaf ear counted for the alleged eze ege majority candidate andi andl date the same being antagonistic to the letter and spirit of the law and an subversive to every principle of equity and justice she also asks that the senate refuse to receive the electoral returns of the state of new york or count them for the alleged majority candidate farhad the 1336 13 1336 1316 16 votes polled in said state for your petitioner been counted for her and not for one grover cleveland he would not have been awarded a majority of all the votes cast at said elec elpe tion in said state asber asher As ber her reason for asking that the electoral vote of indiana dianae be cast for her she says that after the electoral electora I 1 college ollege of that state stat e had cast its vote for the aforesaid grover cleveland it changed I 1 its ts mind as it had a legal right to and did cast its united ballot for your peti tit ioner 11 BALTIMORE 12 several weeks ago daniel oneil was convicted of assault with intent to kill kil lMichael michael J redding who he be alleged had branded him as 46 a spy and a traitor and said he had ha d givena given a way the secrets of the irish dynamite party counselor when oneil was brought into court today to day asked a postponement of sentence aa as oneil was waa a bonom monomaniac soon oon at ON oneus eils ells request rosenthal was sent for and when that gentleman appeared in front of the lockup oneil hurled a bottle containing a liquid at him the bottle bottie droke broke on the grating gratin tr of the door and several pieces of broken glass struck rosenthal cutting him badly oneil was handcuffed an and taken back to jail by several officers NEW diw YORK 12 the independent republican national committee was in session today to day the treasurer reported that hat the receipts were of f this th s amount q had been expended for campaign documents of which had been circulated it was resolved that the national committee of independent republicans continue its existence and that the state organizations izat ions be instructed to preserve the rolls containing the names of independent voters 11 at the dinner which followed the meeting speeches were made by carl schurz and others who dwelt eulogistically upon the victory won by the independents and predicted a new and cleaner era in national COLUMBUS 0 11 the columbus and ancl hocking coal and iron company discovered this ills morning that mine no 5 at was on fire having been fired on the night previous the thy mine has not been in operation for some time though it Is one of the lar largest in the country havin having a capacity of about 1 25 c cars ars P per er day E entrance was gained to the mine by removing about 15 feet of earth and blocks which had been used in closing the old entrance no trouble resulted as the perpetrators were not discovered in tile the act of tiring firing the mine the reports are that some people who endeavored to go near the mine tonight to night were llred fired upon but no person was hurt this is |